I thought I’d post about a common problem in 3D art, and what I have done to solve it. It is called the “crowd problem” and has been a difficulty with all 3D animation. The first 3D animated movie Toy Story solved it by never having any crowd scenes. AntZ, the second 3D animated movie had hundreds of ants doing
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As you know I have been spending a lot of time working on my Visual Novel rather than writing in this blog, which is a good thing, because I want to get it done just as much as some of you want to play it. Part of doing this project faster and better involves extensive use of the 3D Content
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I’ve been doing lots of cool stuff for the sequel game Something’s In The Air (SITA), but I don’t want to show it all because that would spoil the game. But a few teaser renders wouldn’t hurt. Back in October 2010, I was showing off sets I built for downtown locations. Those sets will show up in SITA as well,
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After struggling with the intricacies of slider bars, trying to balance between matching the proportions of “classic” Ariane, and what actually looks good, I ultimately decided to just keep it simple. I found a pre-designed V4 head that is close, made a grand total of 8 minor adjustments to get closer, and deemed it “close enough”. The new Ariane is
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One of the changes I made to the 7.1 version was to replace the hostess at the strip club with a new model, because the old hostess just can’t cut it anymore. Now after working with a bunch of new models and creating the sequel, it is becoming more and more obvious that Ariane herself needs to be updated. I
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As promised, I am showing some new stuff I’m working on for the dating game. I was hoping to be finished by now but I keep getting distracted by other matters. All I can say is it will be done when it is done. The sequel is likely going to be in Visual Novel format, which means I can do
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So here is another post with some new renders for the next version of the date simulator. These focus on the downtown restaurant. The old restaurant was somewhere downtown but apparently far enough that you had to drive from the restaurant to the downtown town shopping area. I am establishing a sense of geography now.
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I mentioned a few posts ago that I am doing some set design stuff to enhance the current Dating Sim and to set up a sequel. This has been challenging and fun, and I thought I’d show off a few new renders. Today, I am showing off the local neighborhood.
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I’ve been tinkering around with the dating simulator again, making some improvements to the backyard activities, especially the swimming activity, which has not been changed much since version 1.0. I’ve had the idea for some time of doing some underwater stuff, and experimented a little with that while making version 5.5. In that instance I created a corner of the pool in Second Life, taking advantage of SL’s full camera control and water effects. (click title to continue…)
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